this as arab league observers arrive in syria to get a firsthand look at situation. leland vittert is live with more. what is the latest? >> reporter: it seems like, gregg that the syrian government may be trying to kill as many people as they can ahead of observers coming into town. we are talking about a matter of hours until they are indeed on the ground in damascus and get a chance to get a first-hand view of what is going on. from home comes a story of an artillery barrage which has leveled one neighborhood and killed about 20 people. that is the center of the uprising there against president sad r-frplt i bashar al-assad. it appears the military will stop at nothing including shelling into civilian areas to keep president bashar al-assad in power. observers are from the arobject league who are trying to stop the violence that has killed 5,000 people at the hand of the government forces. the observers don't really have any weapons on them and they don't have the ability to stop any of the violence. they are just there to observe. so the syrian government can con